wow, this went to bashing on Operatives very quickly. Operatives are Scout/Saboteurs both of which are most efficient when stealthy. Of course the soldier engineer and medic can be stealthy too, but what benefit does that give? A sneaky soldier will blow someone up from behind, immediately get spotted and killed. A sneaky engineer will throw a turret in some odd spot where, yes it will get decent kills, however and enemy operative will come, kill you, and hack the turret. A sneaky medic? you better be with other sneaky people, or else your whole role is thrown out of whack with nobody to heal. a sneaky Operative? finds you flanking routes, opens shortcuts, gathers intel, scouts enemies, and while the medics engineers and soldiers are on the frontlines, the operative is softening up the opposition while you get to pick them off. Operatives can be played non-stealthily, I just think i'd play it better stealthily.

I was never really on your side.




Light operative is likely the easiest class to be stealthy with. Yes they are is no cloak or anything that we know of yet. However the speed and ability to get places no one else can supposed to give us the edge. As I have said in other treads hit and run tactics is the key. Your solider and medic have the enemy team under fire and then the faster players will flank and finish.

Operatives creed = 4 F's

Find, fix, flank, and finish.




I really couldn't have put it better myself. I think that teamwork is going to the deciding factor. Two operatives working together is better than one but that could be said of any class.

I just want to run around and shoot at things !

therefore ill be making candle light love to the Light Soldier

light operative is not the easiest class to be stealthy with but it is the class that requires you to be stealthy. if a heavy operative was skilled enough, he could use his power to get behind enemy lines. a light cannot do that.

operatives dont fix. engineers do. operatives hack

two operatives working together in the same place doubles the chance of being spotted if your trying to use your stealth tactics. they should be in the same general area so that if one gets discovered, the other can either protect him or go complete the objectives undiscovered

Exactly reptar, they should each have a vantage point that compliments the other, this way if one gets compromised, the other can pick off the enemy.

depends on the enemy. if a heavy blindsides the other person, i wouldnt recommend trying to take him out from behind

Actually, it depends on how far his reinforcements would me, if they were a good distance, two light operatives should be enough to confuse and take him out.

not if ones already dead :shifty:

Haha wow, I didn't expect so many votes for the light operative. The lightweight operative is defiantly the kinda character I will be spending the most time with.

I've always preferred stealth over any other combat strategy, and anybody who says the operative isn't stealthy, needs to go read up on more information about this class. The operative class can disguise himself as an enemy, backstab enemies, use a third-person perspective camera for more eyesight on your surroundings, see through walls for a limited time, track enemies, the list goes on! Then you add in the things he can do while behind enemy lines: track a specific enemy, hack sentries, steal intelligence; It's like an amazing hybrid with the TF2 Spy and a Splinter Cell.

As for the weight, I chose light because I want to take full advantage of the SMART system while also having the ability to take things slow when I need to and being quick & efficient when necessary. Full control of my surroundings is key being a pro stealth operative, in my opinion.

if you had read any of the other posts or other threads on class you would realize that operatives dont get any special treatment for stealth

What do you mean? I'm pretty sure all the skills I mentioned are only for the operative class.

yes they are. the diguises and backstabs wont be very useful at first due to the excessive amounts of players playing as operatives. the third person is only available while performing an objective and i think it might be available to everybody. the homing beacon ability will be very helpful but the other classes get othe abilities to balance that out

That's true, but those skills don't make you any better at sneaking around. They make you have to be sneaky to use them. :disguise:

It's too early to say games will be overfilled with operatives just because of a poll on one forum. The Eurogamer preview said the third person perspective is for the operative class, but that doesn't 100% confirm it either. And of course other classes will be balanced, that doesn't make the operative anymore or less stealthily. Every class can be stealthily obviously, but the operative class has a bunch of skills that compliment the stealth. That's what makes them the stealth class, right? Also, he can see though walls. That already makes him a thousand times better for stealth then any other class xD;



Exactly, it forces the operative to use stealth gameplay for the skills to be used to the best of their ability.

im pretty sure that seeing through walls is a reward for successful interrogations. its not a skill that you can use whenever you want

Oh yea yea, I already know that. It's just having the ability, even if it's just for a short time, what makes it incredibly useful for stealth. I think it's better having it only after doing a certain task and only for a limited time because it made Splinter Cell Conviction way too easy xD;

you will find that interrogations will become very tricky and require you to think outside of the box before they just bleedout while your running towards them

As long as it's not an Operative bleeding out...

(I saw this suggestion somewhere else on the forms, forget where)

I guess what I meant is that the Operative seems more geared towards recon than anything else. Collecting information from various sources and using it to help his team. It's not all about backstabbing and disguises. And you also need to be on hand to hack stuff for your team. I think it's less about striking from the shadows and more about flanking and hittin 'em in the kidneys.

Is interrogations part of this game? Never heard this. HOw does it work?

when an enemy is bleeding out, an operative has the option to interrogate him which provides a UAV for his team for about 10 seconds. they show it in the container city videos

a successful Interrogation provides your team with the location of enemy players on the map - they never said anything about it granting access to a UAV.

We MW2 players are simply used to UAV being synonymous with radar. :shrug:

Is there even going to be a radar in this game? I know there won't be names over the head of our characters.

lol heavy operative i might give it a go. but i would most likley be light or medium operative because i like to move fast and operative is my type of person